[Imc-radio] membership fee is in your mailbox (fwd)

[faith swords]

Hey everyone,

David Porreca, one of our members, teaches at Uni and he is interested in 
having a kind of how-to workshop for the students there this summer. Below 
is his vision and contact info.

I am really interested in working on this, but my focus at the IMC isn't 
on creating media, so I am hoping that people from groups who DO do that 
would be willing to jump in.

What do you think?

--Faith

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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:55:35 -0600
From: David Porreca <dporreca at uiuc.edu>
To: faith at imsahp.cu.groogroo.com
Subject: membership fee is in your mailbox

Faith,

Thanks for the reminder.

I went to the UCIMC office in Urbana today (Thursday) around 3 p.m. It was 
closed, so I put a small envelope in the mailbox outside. The envelope contains 
a check for $100 made out to UCIMC. I hope that helps.

On a completely different matter . . .

What do you think about UCIMC being involved in a summer journalism workshop 
for high school kids? University Laboratory High School (Uni High), where I 
work, is always interested in outreach programs. I'm sure the school would 
grant permission to hold the workshop here in our classrooms and computer labs. 
I also think I could get funding from the school to pay for basic expenses.

I'm thinking of a four- or five-day workshop in which kids would learn how to 
do indy journalism (i.e., real journalism, the kind without fear or favor), and 
tips on how to put that into practice at their schools.  The week would 
culminate in putting together a special project of some kind (probably Web- or 
print-based, but it could also be broadcast).  If people like Bob McChesney are 
around, perhaps they could come and talk to the kids as well.

Do you think this idea has any potential? As I see it, the UCIMC staff would be 
the backbone of the workshop. I would like to be involved as well; for what 
it's worth, I can offer the "fruits" of having spent the last 10 years working 
with high school kids. Perhaps we could get a few U of I profs, such as Bob or 
Dan Schiller (whose daughter Lucy is a Uni High student) or Leon Dash or John 
Fountain, to make cameo appearances.

If the UCIMC thinks this idea is worth pursuing, I would be glad to discuss it 
further at your convenience. If we began advertising the workshop among C-U 
area high schools by February, we should be able to attract at least a dozen or 
so kids, which is a big enough number to make it worthwhile, in my opinion.

Any way, I just wanted to toss the idea your way.

Thanks!

Dave Porreca
2444-8578